Disk space is full, everything is starting not to work.

My computer has been saying my startup disk is getting full for some time. I deleted basically every file, since I didn't have much on here anyways. I have my pictures, my itunes, and only a few word documents. I had thought that maybe my itunes was taking up all the space, even though I don't have nearly enough music to do that. I then checked the storage through the "about this mac" option. It is showing that the majority of space on my computer is being taken up by movies... which makes no sence because I have no movies on this computer. Now I am not sure what to do... is there a way to delete these unknown movies it thinks I have on my computer?

First start by reading these two links and executing some of the suggestions:
http://pondini.org/OSX/LionStorage.html
http://pondini.org/OSX/DiskSpace.html
An excellent tool to use is OmniDiskSweeper,  Download it from the Internet (free) and open it.  It will show all of your files and the respective sizes.  Delete or transfer to an external HDD that you do not want on your MBP.
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